The American Medical Association voted Tuesday to declare obesity a disease, a move that effectively defines 78 million American adults and 12 million children as having a medical condition requiring treatment. The AMA's decision essentially makes diagnosis and treatment of obesity a physician's...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 25
Don Berwick, a former Obama administration health official, announced Monday that he is running for governor of Massachusetts. Berwick, a Democrat, is a physician and health policy expert who ran the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) as a recess appointee, but Republicans...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 25
Carle Foundation Hospital, of Urbana, Ill., has investigated three instances where surgical team members shared pictures taken on their own cellphones with other surgical employees. In all three cases, the photographs were requested by the surgeon involved for legitimate purposes and Carle’s...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 25
From 2007 to 2010, the use of hospital services in the last six months of life fell significantly, with a 9.5% decrease in hospital days per patient and an 11% decrease in deaths occurring in the hospital, according to a Dartmouth Atlas report released earlier this month. The percentage of...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 25
Physician leaders warned that a recent ruling by the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals could prove a significant impediment to state licensing boards’ ability to regulate the practice of medicine, amednews.com reported. The court ruled that a North Carolina dental board exceeded its authority...
Healthcare job growth slowed in May compared with recent months, according to preliminary data released last week by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Hospital jobs, which had shown robust growth earlier in the year, declined by 5,900 in the latest figures and nursing care facilities shed 2,...
John Commins, for HealthLeaders Media, June 10, 2013
Nestled in the massive immigration bill that's being debated now in Congress are a handful of provisions that could ease the process that allows foreign-born physicians to practice in underserved areas across the United States....
The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) and Journal of Graduate Medical Education earlier this week announced plans for a 2014 supplement to the Journal that will feature Educational Milestones for all specialties in Phase II of the Next Accreditation System,...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 24
The American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association have expanded the clinical practice guideline for managing patients with heart failure. The guideline updates definitions and classifications for heart failure and increases emphasis on patient-centric outcomes such as quality...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 24
Mandatory influenza vaccination as a condition of employment did not cause healthcare workers to flee from Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, Ill., according to a four-year analysis of vaccination rates. With the backing of hospital leadership, infection control and prevention...
